Ok so I have a 97 F250 that has just bought three months ago and since then I have had a slew of problems at only 160k It started off with a antifreeze leak that was a water pump going out then when it was out it exposed the timing cover had a hair line crack in it and was leaking as well now I have taken my truck to ATS DIESEL here in Colorado where its been sitting for almost a month and they have TOTALLY screwed up my truck it now has more problems then when it went in!!!

They pulled the motor to replace the timing cover during that process they found a fuel leak at the pump which was replaced they also noticed that there was a injector/glow plug pig tail that was melted idk which one I forgot to ask... and so they spliced the harness and replaced that as well and re sealed the motor and put it back in. In the process of doing that dented my oil pan, cut and spliced all of my coolant hoses instead of replacing them!, forgot to put the safety clips back on the oil cooler lines, broke various hose brackets all over the place, and put my hood and fenders back on crooked so none of the gaps line up now and the hood was so close to the windshield cowl that it chipped all the paint off the back of my hood and the front of the cowl on one side!!! Oh and the best part IT STILL LEAKS out of the bottom of the timing cover!!!! So any Ideas on what I should do about all that???

AND NOW!! I have this lovely high pitched squeal from my idler pulley, the engine vibrates at a idle and at about 2600 rpm and dies as soon as I let off the pedal but starts back up just fine??? So could you guys maybe help and tell me what is going on I'm not a diesel guy so that's why I took it to a Supposed "EXPERT SHOP" in the first place so any help would be greatly appreciated

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